The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

By Sarah Ogilvie

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From the publisher: A thrilling literary detective story, The Dictionary People unravels the mystery of the fascinating global cast of contributors who, for more than seventy years, helped to codify the way we read and write and speak. Their combined efforts resulted in what is arguably the greatest crowdsourcing endeavor in human history, the Wikipedia of its time. Her, then, is a celebration of words, language, and people, whose eccentricities and obsessions, triumphs and failures, enriched the English language.

Dimensions: /370 pages

Softcover